63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation with members of the filmmaking team behind the NYFF63 selection BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, including director Kahlil Joseph, artist Kaneza Schaal (who directed a segment of the film and stars in it), Savanah Leaf (Earth Mama, New Directors/New Films 2024), and Raven Jackson (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, NYFF61), moderated by Jon-Sesrie Goff (multidisciplinary artist, curator, and Program Officer at the Ford Foundation).

Taking inspiration loosely from W.E.B. Dubois’s unfinished Encyclopedia Africana project, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, directed by celebrated artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, is a moving-image work like no other—a sui generis gush of images, narratives, and modes that is as erudite as it is irreverent. Ideas from Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Marcus Garvey, and others mix with images from artists like Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa, as well as samples from the capacious world of social and broadcast media, offering an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience.

The 63rd New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

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